Athanasius Kircher
Subtitle: the last man who knew everything
By: Paula Findlen, editor.
Contributors: Findlen, Paula.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 465
Subjects: Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680.; Jesuits -- Germany -- Biography.; Intellectuals -- Germany -- Biography.; Learning and scholarship -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.; Europe -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.; Germany -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Athanasius Kircher and his world; title: Baroque imaginary : the world of Athanasius Kircher, S.J. (1602-80); title: Kircher's Rome : a way to understand the Celeberrimus Museum Kircherianum; title: Reveries in time of plague : Kircher and the plague epidemic of 1656; title: Kircher and his critics : censorial practice and pragmatic disregard in the Society of Jesus; title: Quasi-optical palingenesis : the circulation of portraits and the image of Kircher; title: Kircher, Peiresc, and the foundation of Coptic studies, or, The quest for Barachias Nephi; title: Trees, some amulets, and the seventy-two names of God : Kircher reveals the Kabbalah; title: Kircher's chronology; title: Athanasius Kircher, Giordano Bruno, and the panspermia of the infinite universe; title: Father Athanasius on the isthmus of a middle state : understanding Kircher's paleontology; title: The angel and the compass : Athanasius Kircher's geographical project; title: Magnetic language : Athanasius Kircher and communication; title: Publishing the polygraphy : manuscript, instrument, and print in the work of Athanasius Kircher; title: Private and public knowledge : Kircher, esotericism and the republic of letters; title: Baroque science between the old world and the new : Father Kircher and his fellow Jesuit, Valentin Stansel (1621-1705); title: A Jesuit's books in the new world : Athanasius Kircher and his American readers; title: True lies : Kircher's China illustrata and the life story of a Mexican mystic; title: Athanasius Kircher's China illustrata (1667) : an apologia pro sua vita; title: The afterlife of a polymath; title: Understanding Kircher in context.